DIVISION OF WORK

I am not talking about division of labour but about division of work. Labour can be continuously divided as the need arises. Main work is first divided by free choice. The free choice is governed by the likes and dislikes and actually by tendencies with which human beings are born with. These tendencies are embedded in genetic codes that are also related to the source of birth and place of birth too. If the tendencies get favourable bringing up, soil and environment, they grow up very well otherwise their growth is proportional to the circumstances, the personal determination of choice. Families and societies only teach and try to instil general mannerism and habits, only to maintain particular social and general harmony in society. Though religions play major roles in division of work but often this barrier is violated by individuals’ natural drive or self convictions, ideas and beliefs.

There are basic four divisions due to natural instincts or tendencies and then there can be as many as two dozens to cover every individual in this world.

Basic four divisions are: (I) Teachers (II) Warriors (III) Business people (IV) Service people, to serve all including their own class.

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The Universe is not classless then how can humans be classless? From these classes spring other classes due to permutation & combination that are seen all over the world. The interchanging in classes or division of work is dependent on the individuals. There is flexibility in choice but continuity can be maintained by the deserving people of generations but it is never a law in itself.

In fact, no class is lower or higher than any other class in virtue but the difference may be in degrees and quality of life and performance. Like I say that all humans are born equal but not raised equal, therefore we have so many societies, religions, languages, sizes, shapes, complexions, attitudes and what not! This is variety and is cause of problems and happiness as well as misery and wars.

Since over a millennium historians have some times misled people in the world by writing histories of many hypotheses as influenced by polity, greed and ignorance. No one can vouch for the truth because truth was never documented as it should have been by the writers of the past. Thus they are giving us a mysterious and imaginative history for speculations, with little room for their verifications. Therefore, not quoting from books, I write the following but any one can relate to the ideas and theories of one’s choice, accept or reject the writing.

(I) THE TEACHERS:

They are those who after really learning about the life, art, commerce and sciences etc, start teaching a person or masses about the knowledge they have acquired. It can be of anything starting from cosmology to death of everything and even beyond death too.

There are preachers also who learn from the Masters and spread the knowledge to the masses but some teachers are born to teach. They acquire knowledge from within, like our ancient Rishies, Moses, Socrates, Mohammad, Ramakrishna etc. Some acquire deep knowledge from Scriptures and meditative reflections.

Teachers can teach on any subject they choose to teach. It can be spiritual, armoury, business or service. Like Chanakya taught politics and economics, Vatsayan taught Kama-sutra while Patanjali taught Yoga-sutra and Adi Shankara taught Brahma-sutra and Dronacharya taught Shustra-vidya. But in other fields also, we have Panin for grammar, Shushutra for surgery and just name anything we find a teacher and a philosopher. Even for Hedonism we had Charwak who taught that “Rinam Krutva Ghritam Pibeta” means eat-drink-and be merry. Teachers are ‘Gurus and Guru Dev Bhava’ is most respected stature of human beings.

(II) THE WARRIORS:

In order to protect civilisation from attacks from same and other groups of civilisation, we need some strong and powerful people. These people form the warrior class to bring an order and system to the civilisation. A forum is required with a head and a body to govern the civilisation. This can be done through a Chief, a King or a President and Priminister with several heads of several departments. The duty of this class is to maintain the accepted laws in the society and accepted code of moral conducts so that peace and harmony is preserved in order to make further in the civilisation in many other branches of human endeavour such as science, music, arts and commerce etc.

Teachers can be warriors and warriors can become teachers or both can adopt dual roles when needed. Such examples are found in mythologies and histories, like in our epics of Ramayana & Maha Bharata, Rama and Krishna adopted dual roles of warrior and teacher. This is just one example when hundreds of such examples can be found in past and present times.

(III) BUSINESS PEOPLE:

It is due to these classes of people that human beings survived and will survive in future too. For any living thing food is most essential thing for survival. Homo sapiens hunted and gathered food to survive and then they developed agriculture then survivor became easier. Extra products of food could support many humans that did not hunt, gathered or agriculture so that they could engage in other pursuits. This is how the business people came in to be called by this name, without them, there will be no teachers, no warriors and no service class either.

Whatever we see in this world ugly or beautiful is due to the business class of people. If people are hungry and things required are not produced by business class then a musician can’t compose, a painter can’t paint, a teacher can’t teach, a warrior can’t rule and no service can be provided to any one.

Here again there are no binding that a businessman can not become a teacher or a warrior and same applies to teachers and warriors that they can become businessmen too by choice without reduction in virtue or respect indeed. No example is better than that of Mahatma Gandhi. He transcended from business to warrior and then to service class and ascended to teacher class before his unique death.

(IV) SERVICE PEOPLE:

It is impossible for human beings to progress in any field without service of people. A teacher requires an audience to tech, a ruler requires subjects to rule, a business requires many kinds of services from start to never ending after work (sales) services and again service class people are required to serve themselves by serving all for their survival and progress with equal dignity. It is always the attitude towards work that makes work small or big. Even to please God one has to worship him through work. All works carry same intrinsic and equal potency. Nothing can exist without doing any work. Humans work according to their tendencies; positive or negative, that produces automatic results of happiness or misery.

We all must proceed from darkness to light by offering and honouring works as deeds of prayer to God.

Service people can also transcend to any class like ‘Valmiky became a Rishi’ and ‘Kabirdas became a most respected saint by all’ in recent times. There are no bars to cross from one class to another class. What one has to do is to acquire the quality of work. Sense of well being will be permanent on this kind of person. Life will be a blessing to live on this planet and if there is any after life then too one need not worry about it.